There are many ways to give to Montalvo, including in-kind gifts. These can be as valuable to us as cash, and they are also fully tax-deductible.
Below is our current wish list, separated by our various programs.
Sally and Don Lucas Artist Residency Program
- Working vehicles that can used by the artists
- Air mileage to be used for artist travel to and from Saratoga
- 11 work lamps for artist studios
- Large, sturdy work tables for artist studios
- Golf carts
- High quality frying pans and sauce pans, without Teflon coating
Facilities and Operations
- Mini tractor or bobcat
- Long range 2-way radios
- iPads and/or iPods
- 3 laser printers
- 6 flat screen computer monitors
- 10 laptop computers to be used throughout the organization
- 60 waist/half aprons with pockets for use by volunteers at outdoor events
- Power backup generator for the whole Villa
- Leaf blower
- Power tool set
- 100ft plumbing clean out snake
- Chainsaw
- Small Honda power generator
- Small storage shed
- Industrial storage racks
Carriage House Theatre and Box Office
- 2 Rolling LCD Video Monitor Stands
- 2 LCD Video Monitors iPad w/2D barcode scanner & credit card swipers for remote ticket sales
- Safe
Facility Rentals and Special Events
- Dance floor for Villa – folds and is stored when not in use
- Additional white folding chairs for rentals
Education Department
- Projectors and motorized screens
- Visual Display Boards for hanging student artwork
- Printing press
- Quality photo printer
- Clay Extruder
- Soldering torches
- Jewelers kiln
- Rotor tools (dremels)
- Drills
- Sheet metal cutter/bender
- Anvils
- Looms
- Sewing machines (6)
- Modern lectern for our lecture series
- Document cameras
- Spray booth
- Table Saw
- Jig Saw
- Disk Sander
- Adjustable Body Forms (male and female)
- Pug Mill for repurposing clay
- Gas Kiln
- 3D printers
- Laser cutter
- 3D scanner
- CNC Router
- Vacuum Forming Machine
- 20 laptops with the following specs for animation, graphic design, video/photo editing, visual effects, 3D modeling and more:
- 15-inch screen.
- Quad-core Intel Core i7 or better
- 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred)
- Hard Drive: 500 GB or larger 7200 RPM or Solid-state drive (SSD)
- Graphics card with at least 2GB of memory (4 GB preferred)
Marketing
- 1-3 Tablets/iPads
- SLR camera